The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-06-20
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Once, Nos. 20 and 81 Fourteenth street.
TunoUGn THE STATE.
Accidents and Incidents In West vlrgtni,
md Vicinity.
An effort 10 being made to secure a par
don for John L. .Timlns who was recent,
s%eHtenced 10 the PEN" from Patnan
county Tor forging school orders. giH
Cumberland, Nd, Ia to receive durin,
tho coming week her first lot Of brici
from New Cumberland, this State, to b,
used Tor atrees paving purposes.
George Dyche, Of Morgan county, is tht
champion snake ex!erminator in that sec
tiou, az BIO haa within the last three week.
killed 10 large copper.heads and one blacl
snake. F{EA ATig li 5lY.
Congressman Charles i. Hogg has jus'
notified applicants for admission to thu
Naval academy, at Annapolis, that q com
petitive examination will be held at Point
Peaaant on June 20.
The Board Of Regents OF the State Uni
yersity at Morgantown, have purchased a,
a cost Of 81 $50, three meadow lots oppo,
site the University that will DO used ior
drill and recreation purposes.
Thomas Lemon, nged IS, and Charles
Adkins, sged 20, OF Raleigh county, quar-,
relied, and Lemon struck Adkins over the
head with his hoe iracturing Ills skull,
His condition Is serious, and there Is little
hope Of his recovery. Lsmon Is in jail.
Dr.. Bland who for como reason Ia per.
mitted 10 remain at the head OF the State
Insane Asylum at Weston, IS Superin.
tendent, was in Detroit last week attend.
ing the annual meeting OF Supesinsend-
ents OF 1nsaue Asylums throughout the
country.
View days since a 1.-Two deer was cap.
tured in the river near Fayctto Station,
Fayette county. The deer had been
chased into the river by dogs, and some
men seeing Ii, they procured q boat and
soon had 1t safely lodged in the cellar OF
Mr. g. ~. Btume's house.
Thomas Crawford, ono O the oldes.
residents OF Burgettstown, Pa, while
crossing a field was Frustrated by the heat,
and after lying in the aun for two hours
recovered sufficiently to walk to tho home
Of his granddaughter, Mrn. W. Aiken,
where he expired in a few minutes.
A few days since cries OF distress were
heard coming from one Of the freight cars
iii the chesapeake & Ohio yards Of Hin.
ton. The car was opened and q colored
tramp found, almost starved. He crawled
iuto the car to sleep at Kansas CITY and
had been locked up for elk days without
food or water. 4
The Hinton Herald reports the recent
discovery Of a great cave OF indefinite ex.
tent by 4 gang Of laborers blasting rock
for ballast on tho line Of tho G.. & o. rail.
way d fow miles east Of Anderson. The
cave is q succession Of lofty chambers and
passages Astounding in fossil formations Of
grest beauty and variety.
Mr.: EiwardE 3. Elliot, OF Kingwood, a
member Of this yesrla graduating class at
the State University, has been appointed
by the Board Of lRegents as assistant in the
preparatory department OF that institu.
ton in place Of Prof. Thomas A. Hodges,
principal OF the Marshall Normal school,
who was rendered ths petition but de-
'cliued.
The Weston Democrat says that the
postoiice at that point hao been flooded
tor& several days with letters aud books
directed to "Sliss Anna 0. Grim, Principal
cloak Grove Seminary, Weston, W. Va"
The letters are numerous, and the books,
which are apparently valuable, fill 8 good
s;z0d box. There 10 no OAK Grove Semi
nary near there.
hlrs. VIM. Sharp, of Pocahontss county,
a lady about u yeara Of age, was found
lying in tho road ono day lnat week, where
she had either been thrown or fallen from
her. horse, with her thigh badly broken
near the hip joint. She cannot tell how
the accident occurred. She had been to
the store a mile or two from her home,
aud was returning. Her age and the
seriousness Of her injury make her re.
covery very doubtful. aE6
Under the caption Hell Broke Loose"
the Brsxton county Democrat relates some
OF tho many acts OF devilment that have
been committed in that county during the
past ten daye: One night Taylor Frames
dog was killed by poison, the next his hen
house wss viaited and hall a dozen OF the
finest young and tender pullets extracted.
Several other hen houses in the upper
part Of town have also been raided. Z.
S. BlsDd's smoke house was broken omen
and relieved Of o 6ne side of bacon. John
Byrne, ]. F. Campbell and @. s. Evans
each Lost a dog by poiaon, and aomebody
stole a fine young calf belonging to Dr.
Newton.
As Miss Fannie McClane, Of Waahing-
ton county, was walking along the road
lest week she came upon two large black
snakes lying in the road, and not seeing
anything handy that she could kill them
with started to the fence to 20 round them,
when she espied another hugh snakelying
on the fence. She beat a retreat. Some
men happened along in timo TO kill the
two enakes that were in the road, but the
third one escsped. One Of the snakes
killed measured I feet Q inches in length,
and s inches in circumference. and the
other was 9 feet s inches long. Miss Nc.
Clane has killed six snakes this season;
three OF them at one time. She stood on
the heads Of two Of them. while abe dis.
patched the third with 9 club. She then
released the others, mi at a time and
killed them.
Emsey Gsrnes, Of jackson county, ct,
tempted 10 commit suicide few days
siuee while at the house Of Andy Gun.
nin9ham, a friend. He srose early and
went toward the stable. Not answering
the b.eskiaat bell, search was made for
him and he was found behind the stable
with his throat terribly gsahed up, there
being twelve gashes, the largest being
some Ave or Six inches long, and it ap.
pears that he had cut twice in the same
place in the largest cash, cuttingtwo holes
in the windpipe; the other wounds arc
not serious. Physicinna were summoned
who did all they could for him, but 1t ID
not thought that he can recover. He il
unmarried and thirty years old. He ap:
peared perfectly cane, and assigns nc